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ID: 6001022
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6001022
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Bunker Hill (neighborhood)  Bunker Hill (neighborhood)

Note: Site of British victory over American colonials in 1775; at beginning of American Revolution, British dislodged troops under General Artemas Ward from this hill & adjacent Breed's Hill; though the battle was won, British sustained heavy casualties. Located in Charleston.

Names:
Bunker Hill (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Massachusetts (state)  ............  Massachusetts (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Suffolk (county)  ................  Suffolk (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Boston (inhabited place)  ....................  Boston (inhabited place) (P)
Hierarchy of Bunker Hill (neighborhood)  ........................  Bunker Hill (neighborhood) (P)

Place Types:
neighborhood (preferred, C)
battlefield (H)  ............  1775

Sources and Contributors:
Bunker Hill..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 132
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 190
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 132
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 190
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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